An Open World Sandbox RPG That's Really Hard To Put Down - Elin

Elin gameplay with Splat! Let's Play Elin and check out a game where you'll be a nameless adventurer washed up on unknown shores free to do whatever you want with your time. Farm, fight, friends, eat puppies!

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[Syrin]

"Mother was a magical dildore, welp, the puppy died". A sentence no one believed would ever be uttered in the history of human existence

[Kkvta]

BEST game I've played in years?! I'm feeling that addictive mmorpg feeling but it's a singleplayer game, amazing. Can't recommend it enough, my GOTY.

[Lampoluke]

I hope this is as insane as the originals. Elona was an inspiration for CoQ, and it still managed to outweird it (pickpocketing gods, finding turds that weight 16 tons that become doomsday weapons when thrown, the infamous tourist filter that is the infinite pregnancy cycle.)

[TheYear]

22:51 Hi, I'm Naben of the palmian special forces. My job as a painter doesn't pay much, so I picked up drinking. You know, as a hobby. Oh and I'm already 8 years old.

[Dakron]

Wow I never thought I would see this series again. For me ELONA will always stand out as one of those defining rpgs that no one has ever heard of. Oh the days of training my defense against a slime until it inadvertantly became an unstoppable killing machine because it had also been leveling up the whole time. Or waiting to see another adventurer had died in a dungeon then racing to find the dungeon and the body inside to loot all of their gear. They also had ELONA Shooter which is what originally lead me to the game. Thanks for finding this game, I'm super excited to check it out!

[greenpangolin]

*starts video* "hey, this looks like Elona+"
they really nailed it

[Jadegreif]

Actually Kickstarted it, thanks for giving it a spotlight

[GameBooAdvancePlus]

Not a lot of people covering this game on youtube so was a suprise to see you lol. Elona is a certified classic so people were definitely excited for this one.

[Bongyes]

As much as you said this game is weird as hell (and morbid too), it gets weirder. IT ALWAYS GETS WEIRDER. One example?

The panties (who are most often sold in vending machines) not only are a weapon, it returns to you (like boomerang), deals mind damage (so yeah panties makes enemies go insane) but are also an INSTRUMENT which means you can use music skill to PLAY ON PANTIES.

[MetalGarurumonX]

7:24 - That's why you choose the Little Girl as your pet, yes that sounds terrible, until you see her carrying your ass through the whole game pretty much...

[real_arktic_foxxy]

One fun mechanic about the game is exchanging favor for tickets. Those tickets let you "legally" take items from towns. It can literally be a chest with stuff in inside

[Totallynotkyubey]

Hell yeah, I've been anxiously waiting for the succesor to Elona. Time to be a wizard snail and die after getting sprinkled with salt.

[Ilamarea]

Leaving a comment to express my appreciation for your content even if most times I only watch ~30 seconds of it to see if I'm at all interested in the game or not.

[Hamanito]

I don't know if it has already been mentionned but the change from classic top-down to isometric really makes this game more appealling imo

[MisogynyMan]

To anyone that thinks this looks interesting. The previous game Elona is a bit difficult to deal with, but the modded version Elona+ is still going strong and is a good game.
Its better translated and less buggy.
The randomness of it all could be annoying but you learn to work with it. Save scumming is your friend. You can do pretty much anything in that game, its amazing.

[Fellcritik]

‘Korean MMO from 1997…’

Say less…sign me up

[dmsys]

You dont drop anything on death in the first 90 days
You drop coins afterwards

[jonathant]

Something I learned from playing Elona that new players probably won't know - if you want to cast magic, you need to read spellbooks in order to get charges of the spell. Failing to read spellbooks can do a number of nasty things, including draining your mana, randomly teleporting you, and summoning a bunch of high-level monsters to kill you. So, never try to read spellbooks unless you have the Literacy skill, and you are on the edge of a map that you don't care about.

[CiaranN]

This looks SOOO good! I'll be buying this week. Another title I'll have purchased from watching Splats channel... Sure it's around 13 titles now?! Including Alolath last night.. keep it up 👊🏾

[Stilesda]

Elona was a headtrip. Like Nethack, Ultima Online, and an early era JRPG had a baby and that baby had a huge list of insane RNG things that would just happen and totally change everything - yes, it did have some big multiplayer mechanics. You could go into other people's houses and the game rated how cool your house was against theirs. You may have to run Elona on Compatibility Mode but it still works, or at least it did for me. Elin has a similar ranking system but I don't know if you can visit other people's land yet. There was Elona, Elona Shooter, Elona+, and now Elin, all in the same world, all illustrate a really strong design philosophy of creating wild moments.
Elin in the base difficulty is super forgiving. The higher difficulties allow for loss on death or permadeath. Right now on base difficulty you lose nothing for the first 90 game days, then after that you lose some skill advancement progress. Similar to Rimworld your skills have little flame icons that show how talented you are and how fast you can raise them if you use them, determined by your choices at character creation (race, class). I think your NPC minions have similar things determined by their race, job, and hobby, so you'll see them gaining skill levels in the log as they do things. It seems like in the late game you can get a whole army to run your farm, ranch, manufacturing facilities, retail shop, and other types of things, so you can bankroll fulltime adventuring. And if you advance your land you get raided by bigger monsters so there is actually a mechanic to de-advance your land to lower the threat level.

Once it's out of EA there is an aim to have tons of mods and wikis and stuff out there so Elin might have a really wild scene